Guinardia flaccida (Castracane) H.Peragallo
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Rhizosolenianae
Order Rhizosoleniales
Family Rhizosoleniaceae
Genus Guinardia
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Publication details
Guinardia flaccida (Castracane) H.Peragallo 1892: 107, pl. 13, figs 3-5
Original publication: Peragallo, H. (1892). Monographie du genre Rhizosolenia et de quelques genres voisins. Diatomiste 1: 79-82, 99-117.
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Guinardia.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Rhizosolenia flaccida Castracane
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), flaccid, not able to hold up its own weight (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhizosolenia flaccida Castracane 1886
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhizosolenia castracanei Cleve 1889
Henseniella baltica Schütt 1894
Guinardia baltica Schütt 1896
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Guinardia flaccida (Castracane) H.Peragallo)
Europe: Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Netherlands (Dijkman & Kromkamp 2007).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011).
North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).
South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).
Asia: Korea (Lee 2012), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).
Key references
Dijkman, N.A. & Kromkamp, J.C. (2007). Photosynthetic characteristics of the phytoplankton in the Scheldt estuary: community and single-cell fluorescence measurements. European Journal of Phycology 41: 425-434.
Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.
Hendey, N.I. (1974). A revised check-list of the British marine diatoms. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 54: 277-300.
Hoppenrath, M., Elbrächter, M. & Drebes, G. (2009). Marine phytoplankton Selected microphytoplankton species from the North Sea around Helgoland and Sylt. pp. [1]-264, figs 1-87. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
Kim, K.Y., Garbary D.J. & McLachlan, J.L. (2004). Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Phycologia 43: 311-328.
Lee, J.H. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 3, Number 6. Chrysophyta: Bacillariophyceae: Centrales: Thalassiosiraceae, Rhizosoleniaceae. Marine diatoms II. pp. [1-6], 1-110, figs 1-70. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Guinardia&species=flaccida
SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Guinardia&Species=flaccida
Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 15 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 4439 times since it was created.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:83377
